382 GRASSHOPPER LARK. Class IL 



dufky (Ireaks : over each eye a line of pure white, 

 over that another of black : cheeks brown : 

 throat, breaft, and belly white •, the two laft tinged 

 with yellow : hind part of the neck and back of a 

 reddifh brown : the back fpotted with black : co- 

 verts of the t^il tawny : coverts of the wings 

 dufky, edged with pale brown : quil-feathers duf- 

 ky : tail brown, cuneiform : forming a circle when 

 fpread : legs dufky. 



It is a mod entertaining polyglot, or mocking 

 bird •, fitting concealed in willows or reeds, "in a 

 pleafingbut rather hurrying manner, it imitates the 

 fwallow, the fl>:y-lark, the houfe-fparrow, &c, 

 fmgs all night, and feems to leave us before 

 winter. 



156. Grass- Tit-lark, that fings like a Alauda feplaria, L'AIouete 



HOPPER. Grafshopper. PHL orn, de Buiflbn. BriJ/on a'v. IIL 



209. ^ J47. 



Alauda minima locuftsc voce. Piep Lerche (Chirping Lark). 



Locuftella, D.>Vc;;. Fr:Jc/^, I 16. 



Maiijyn. a'v. 70. Alauda trivaii.-. Lin. fyjl. 288. 



Rafs Letters i 108. Br, Zool. 95. plate Q:. f. 5. 



THIS bird was received out of Shropjhire : it 

 is the fame with that Mr. Ray ddcribrs as 

 having the note of the grai3h:^pper, but loud-;: and 

 fliriller. It is a mofl artful bird, will Icuik in the 

 middle, and thickeft part of the hedge, and will 

 keep running along for a hundred yards together, 

 nor can it be forced out but with the greateft 

 2 difRculty : 



